Christmas at St. John's-Grace


Three Angels from the Knox Window by J. Gordon Guthrie
St. John's-Grace Episcopal Church

Welcome to Christmas at St. John's-Grace. Please click on each of the items below to hear the music and readings as experienced on December 24, 2009.

As you enter the church, the organ prelude is ending and the bell rings to begin the Christmas Eve service. Then the choir and congregation begin singing O Come, All Ye Fatihful.

Gloria by John Rutter

The First Lesson, Isaiah 9:2-7

Psalm 148 sung in plainsong ("gregorian chant")

The Second Lesson, The Epistle to Titus 2:11-14

Angels We Have Heard on High

The Gospel, Luke 2:1-20

Hark! the Herald Angels Sing

The Choir Sings Qui Creavit Celum by Roland Martin

A Stable Lamp Is Lighted

Sanctus from the Deutsche Messe of Franz Schubert

Agnus Dei from the Missa Guadalupe of Joel Martinson

Silent Night

Good Christian Friends, Rejoice

As the people leave the church, listen to Jacques Lemmens' Chorus of Shepherds.

 

The readers are Carl Kowalkowski, Diane Sharry and Deacon Cecily Whiteford.

David K. Mathewson is the Organist/Choirmaster at St. John's-Grace.

  

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